The pharmaceutical pottery constitutes an important core in the collection, also because it is numerically consistent. It was donated to the Municipality by the Gubbio Hospital Authority. Since the Middle Ages, ceramics, along with glass, have been the preferred materials for storing herbs, spices, and the numerous components of medicinal preparations, due to the practicality and ease of cleaning. From the mid-15th century, the habit of writing directly on the jars the name of the product they contained or leaving the cartouche empty for the application of a paper label became established. The oldest part of the collection is mainly characterized by pourers for liquid medicines (bulbous jars with a cylindrical neck and a spout) and by a series of albarellos (cylindrical shape with a constriction in the middle and a short neck intended for dense, oily preparations, and spices). Completing the collection is a series of crucibles and terracotta distillation domes used for distillation.
